Bringing structure to cell biology with cryo-electron tomography

LN Young, E Villa - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy have marked only the beginning of the
potential of this technique. To bring structure into cell biology, the modality of cryo-electron …

RNA granules: functional compartments or incidental condensates?

A Putnam, L Thomas, G Seydoux - Genes & development, 2023 - genesdev.cshlp.org
RNA granules are mesoscale assemblies that form in the absence of limiting membranes.
RNA granules contain factors for RNA biogenesis and turnover and are often assumed to …

Viscoelasticity and advective flow of RNA underlies nucleolar form and function

JA Riback, JM Eeftens, DSW Lee, SA Quinodoz… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
The nucleolus is the largest biomolecular condensate and facilitates transcription,
processing, and assembly of ribosomal RNA (rRNA). Although nucleolar function is thought …

CryoDRGN-ET: deep reconstructing generative networks for visualizing dynamic biomolecules inside cells

R Rangan, R Feathers, S Khavnekar, A Lerer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Advances in cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) have produced new opportunities to
visualize the structures of dynamic macromolecules in native cellular environments. While …

Quantifying organellar ultrastructure in cryo-electron tomography using a surface morphometrics pipeline

BA Barad, M Medina, D Fuentes, RL Wiseman… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - rupress.org
Cellular cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables three-dimensional reconstructions of
organelles in their native cellular environment at subnanometer resolution. However …

Visualizing chaperonin function in situ by cryo-electron tomography

J Wagner, AI Carvajal, A Bracher, F Beck, W Wan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Chaperonins are large barrel-shaped complexes that mediate ATP-dependent protein
folding,–. The bacterial chaperonin GroEL forms juxtaposed rings that bind unfolded protein …

A method for restoring signals and revealing individual macromolecule states in cryo-ET, REST

H Zhang, Y Li, Y Liu, D Li, L Wang, K Song… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is widely used to explore the 3D density of
biomacromolecules. However, the heavy noise and missing wedge effect prevent directly …

Smart parallel automated cryo-electron tomography

F Eisenstein, Y Fukuda, R Danev - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
In situ cryo-electron tomography enables investigation of macromolecules in their native
cellular environment. Samples have become more readily available owing to recent …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating cellular electron microscopy with multimodal data to explore biology across space and time

CL McCafferty, S Klumpe, RE Amaro, W Kukulski… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Biology spans a continuum of length and time scales. Individual experimental methods only
glimpse discrete pieces of this spectrum but can be combined to construct a more holistic …

[PDF][PDF] STOPGAP: an open-source package for template matching, subtomogram alignment and classification

W Wan, S Khavnekar, J Wagner - Acta Crystallographica Section D …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables molecular-resolution 3D imaging of complex
biological specimens such as viral particles, cellular sections and, in some cases, whole …